Reuters, SHANGHAIChinese state media has released trial footage it says proves that a Chinese defector seeking asylum in Australia is a convicted criminal with a history of fraud. However, China accused the 26-year-old man of being an unemployed fraudster and fugitive. Shanghai police said an investigation was launched in April after Wang was allegedly involved in automobile import fraud in February totalling 4.6 million yuan (US$653,836). He had been given a suspended 15-month prison sentence in 2016 in a separate fraud case, police added. “Certain Australian media and institutions have been creating and hyping up ‘Chinese espionage’ and ‘Chinese infiltration’ with all kinds of false exaggeration and bias,” the spokesman said.
